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05-07-2020, 10:09 AM | #3901 | ||
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Melbourne has managed to transition from floating cruise ship incubators to vertical bricks and mortar incubators. Not sure how wise it is to quarantine so many people in dense housing as well as having the cops stationed on every floor of every building.
If C19 takes hold in these building it would surely spread throughout the building much like it spread within Ruby Princess. |
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05-07-2020, 10:18 AM | #3902 | ||
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Hell of a lot of peeps gonna be angry, when they're forced to see just how naïve they've been, not cross referencing the "facts" MSM has been spewing out for so long......
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05-07-2020, 10:24 AM | #3903 | |||
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Victoria made the mistake of taking in ~50% of international arrivals. The hotel quarantine breach could have happened anywhere, you can't stop someone from breaching protocols. I don't buy the whole "training" bs, it doesn't take a trained staff to know you shouldn't be shagging people that are under quarantine, then going home and attending mass indoor gatherings. PPE is an issue but I doubt that it was the main contributor from what I am hearing, but we'll wait on the inquiry. Touch wood, the current rise in cases are mostly just mild cases, a lot asymptomatic. Only one death. The gov is doing what is necessary to contain. The fed is cunning. See what they did with NSW (coincidentally a Lib state). They put a cap on arrivals, 450 a day, 50 per flight. How many airlines can afford to only put 50 passengers on an overseas flight? It is a smart way of telling airlines to land elsewhere. QLD will cop the brunt of it I imagine. Come election time in a couple of years it will be "look what Labor did". This is a national problem that needs to be tackled, rather than turning it into state bashing. Imagine if Hanson and Dutton got what they asked for, open borders....... |
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05-07-2020, 10:59 AM | #3904 | |||
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https://www.news.com.au/world/corona...7c7c720fd8eb04
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05-07-2020, 11:08 AM | #3905 | ||
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Christmas Island. Free accommodation, free food, free personal security, sea view. Just as long as Dutton allows me to have my phone, what's the problem?
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05-07-2020, 11:30 AM | #3906 | ||
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I bet that now the USSR towers are in proper lockdown there'll be a drop in aggravated burglaries in Flemington/Kensington area over the next 5 days.
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05-07-2020, 11:30 AM | #3907 | ||
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and 40 days as its supposed to be.
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05-07-2020, 11:38 AM | #3908 | ||
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05-07-2020, 11:41 AM | #3909 | ||
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And in about 9 months from now........
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05-07-2020, 11:44 AM | #3910 | |||
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Its 1.7km2 and has 18,000 people living within that tiny suburb which has a huge part of it is Crown Casino I wonder if the Government would lock it down in such a way that they did with the USSR towers or the wealthy would kick back over it? Bearing in mind most of the people who live in those towers are foreign students or young professionals renting. |
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05-07-2020, 11:46 AM | #3911 | |||
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05-07-2020, 01:23 PM | #3912 | ||
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500 Coppers at those high rises!
That's unbelievable... |
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05-07-2020, 01:26 PM | #3913 | |||||
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But I can catch the covids, REALLY easily. So for teh probably 4 million Australians who are in the high risk groups if the covids really got loose LOTS of us would die. Quote:
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05-07-2020, 05:59 PM | #3914 | |||
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Yep.
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Why don’t they call it what it is - temporary incarceration? I can’t see it going very well. Riots and fires would be risks. |
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05-07-2020, 07:36 PM | #3915 | ||
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Yep.
Quote: …Mr Andrews said the way authorities were treating the vulnerable group, many of whom have pre-existing health conditions, was similar to what would be done in a nursing home. I’m yet to see a nursing home with armed police patrolling the corridors. Why don’t they call it what it is - temporary incarceration? I can’t see it going very well. Riots and fires would be risks. Minneapolis or Grenfell? |
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05-07-2020, 07:52 PM | #3916 | ||
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Saw a comment on today's Age livestream saying that quarantine will be passed on to flight attendents. May still be possible to pull the big R then.
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05-07-2020, 07:53 PM | #3917 | |||
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Actually those towers aren't USSR. They are an exact version (right down to the pebble rendering plates) of the UK Public Housing Ministry towers. The Russians would have built them next to a coal power station... The architect who built those Flemington towers, as well as the South Melb, Richmond,Port melb and Prahran towers is my childrens grandfather and my father in law. He died being ashamed of them...."we built ghettos" he said. Most towers are 18 floors with 3 wings, 36 units per floor. laundry facilities are communal on every floor. That's why they require so many police...every floor...every wing. Lots have jumped off and died...lots and lots. |
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05-07-2020, 07:59 PM | #3918 | |||
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05-07-2020, 08:16 PM | #3919 | |||
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I think if they just let it go I'd go be next door neighbor to Old Ben Kenobi on the other side of the Dune Sea. Would need a good sand speeder to get to treatment and back, rifle for the sand people, + full PPE. If the hospital had any time for me that is, given that ICU would be over-run (see: Houston) and docs and nurses dying like overseas too, which has been documented.
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05-07-2020, 08:33 PM | #3922 | |||
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LOL....there is no aircon at all in these or any of the others. this is housing Commission... you open a window for air..... no balconies either. or fly screens... I lived in them for a few years... |
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05-07-2020, 08:57 PM | #3923 | |||
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I guess back when they were designed and built it would have been a huge project though and a big social program, unfortunately today its a terrible mark on Melbourne. Personally I think they're overdue for replacement and replaced with something modern, I'm sure the people living in them would appreciate new facilities. Knock em over, sell the land build new apartment complexes out in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and move the residents there, everyone wins they get new accommodation, government capitalises on its massive land value that these towers are all on, developers can do a huge new apartment precinct and we can do it all over again in 2070 when the outer suburbs of Melbourne become very desirable suburbs 50 years later and Melbourne has a population of 20 million people Alternatively we can rename it from Debneys Park to Little Sao Paulo and Melbourne Favela and actually admit we have a slum in the inner suburbs |
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05-07-2020, 09:02 PM | #3924 | ||
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Here's a photo of the ones on Racecourse Rd in Flemington - look at them they're bloody disgusting.
See all the graffiti on the bridge on the bottom right of the photo, the whole part of the suburb is trashed like that, its a wasteland with the Bolte Bridge right cutting right through immediately before this photo. *car was on auto-pilot at time of photo Check out this link, close off the COVID19 junk, this is the website for the Alexander Lombard tower which is a large apartment complex built in the area, its in a small suburb called Travancore literally around the corner from the USSR towers https://www.altsienna.com.au/ You can see the USSR towers in the video on the website in the background. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 05-07-2020 at 09:08 PM. |
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05-07-2020, 09:09 PM | #3925 | ||
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Thanks Zilo, that's probably better in this situation? Maybe
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05-07-2020, 10:20 PM | #3926 | ||
Shenanigans..............
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05-07-2020, 10:46 PM | #3927 | ||
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Can we stop with the Real estate reports and try really hard to stay on topic please?
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05-07-2020, 11:29 PM | #3928 | ||
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This video takes a while, but uncovers a lot of what has happened.
Pretty confronting stuff, we are all buggered with people running the world like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cav-OCuNmBI Be buggered if i could get direct link to that video working....sorry |
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06-07-2020, 02:06 AM | #3929 | ||
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I dunno Davey...
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06-07-2020, 07:06 AM | #3930 | ||
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I hear Heard Island would be nice.
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